Color Direction: Color + Metallics

Mixing color and metallics can be a fresh way to breathe life into a tired color scheme. With metallics appearing in modern applications such as grass cloth, tile backsplashes, upholstered furnishings, wallpaper and interior paint, the options are virtually endless.

An easy rule of thumb is that warm metallics like bronze, copper and gold compliment warm colors and cool metallics like silver and platinum compliment cool colors. You can also play warm metallics against cool colors and vice versa for contrast.